While the info and experienced you shared may help some, I'd like to point out that you'd not be *entirely* "up the creek with no paddle" if you had to (or chose to) be stuck with IIS. First, the limitation to not create more than one site in IIS is only a limitation in XP (or Windows 2000 Workstation). In Win2k3 or Win2k Server one can indeed create multiple sites.
Still, I realize that most don't have those and so are stuck, say, with XP. Still, there is a solution it may benefit to know about (some will already, of course). It's not that you can't have multiple web sites, just that IIS won't let you create them (and won't let you run more than one at a time). But there are ways to create multiple web sites, so that as long as you only need to run one at a time, you can get around problems like you described. One of the best tools for this is IISAdmin, at http://www.firstserved.net/services/iisadmin.php. I wrote a blog entry about it, with more background, when I was with New Atlanta: http://bluedragon.blog-city.com/multisitesoniis.htm All that said, I certainly don't mean to dissuade anyone from learning about Apache as well. It's really nice to have both the alternative and knowledge of it. /charlie -----Original Message----- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Kear Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 1:21 AM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: OT: apache error - why not several hosts? Thanks Lindsay - that did the trick. Worried me at first, because the first time I ran http://dev.afpwebworks.com it took ages, but i guess that's because it was compiling some files or something but after that it ran quickly and works fine. I needed to start using Apache instead of IIS because of the growing need to use things like Modelglue and reactor, where if you have mappings to the site root, you get issues. this enables me to have lots of sites running each with their own site root. I got away with having IIS and accessing my client sites with http://localhost/clientsite while everything could be inside the client site root, but now, all I need is a version of reactor that requires a code change and i'm up the creek with no paddle. Thanks for your help. And Tom, removing the *:80 caused it to break to teh extent that Apache wouldnt even start. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 4/24/06, Lindsay Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Try doing it like this: > > NameVirtualHost dev.intranet:80 > <VirtualHost dev.intranet:80> > ServerName dev.intranet > ... > </VirtualHost> > > NameVirtualHost dev.afpwebworks.com:80 <VirtualHost > dev.afpwebworks.com:80> > ServerName dev.afpwebworks.com > ... > </VirtualHost> > > [snip] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
